84- ABRAHAM ct .-/" /' L / / ., "-II ' ' " /0 / -t /. ' ,.-:/'i' /,(/ ... .?. ../ ..ø ;? / ,., t I ', þ /Óy 11 \ ,. / //,/ /d /f!)- / $; ':: 1 ' ::::::::::{::::: ø '::-:":':'::\':: I '-':':::': ::=::;"':::::,::,::;:::,:.- . '::::':':::::/:,::, "': :,..,>> '{' ::,:: .. ..., ...,. ..... "' 11 I ".... l:::,:::,:,:::":::ii::::: ::,.,::::::::::::::::;':::-::::::::i :!: i:':"""'::,:::,;::::; '::::::i::::,,:::;: :::: ".:: ::::,:::,::::::1.. :t: Ifait i :::::=:' :}' "'::-::::{: :'.:-:: 1telv,eùt\u,x,,' 'ft......gl,ort, ou-s new' .: æ fiG ::::d4ãsf= ::::fÉìiiid ûlk() F::;: :e.nítJi.i !:1!!: ::!!!!! YACHTS AND Y ACHT SM N Sixes and tIle Gold C'ltp -Bztri verS'lts Rebel ^ FTER traipsing .r-i. around wIth the J boats all sum- l11er, it was a relief to get back to the Sound and see some good small-boat racing. The Cup boats are impressive to watch, if you can get anywhere near them, but Ranger so cOI11pletely dominated the class this year that if you saw one race, you saw them all. l"'he Six Metres, which were scrap- ping for the Gold Cup out at Oyster Bay last week, have more character, and their racing is far sportier. The Gold Cup is the Six lVletres' equivalent of the America's Cup. Any country can challenge the holder once a year, pro- vided its entry is native-designed and huilt. This country won the highly prized Gold Cup last year when Her- Inan Whiton took Indian Scout to Scan- dinavia. \Vhiton built a new boat this year in the hope of being chosen to de- fend the Cup, but after a long-drawn- out series of elimination races, it was I-3riggs Cunningham and his Lulu who were finally selected. Cunningham is prohahly the must underrated skipper in yachting. He is cOl11paratively young and very retiring, so you don't hear much about hil11, but for the past decade he has been winning consistently both here and in Scotland, where he usually takes his boat in the summer. His outstanding qualities as a skipper are his skill in tuning up boats and his ability to keep in top form through a hotly fought series. Months before the trials to select the Gold Cup defender got under way, he was tuning up Lulu off South port, his home port. "'Then he brought his boat down the Sound for the final test, she was in per- fect trim and he had a comparatively easy vIctory. T HE invasion of foreign Sixes on the Sound makes up in color what it lacks in numbers. Only three boats, a Norwegian, a Swede, and a Finn, came over, but the Scandinavians al- ways put on a good show, and we can't recall ever having seen a crew of Finns who didn't carry knives and generally look like light-opera filibusters. Last week the Finns stole the show by break- ing out a fancy colored spinnaker that SEPTEMDER 11, 1937 \ \' \ \\t1\0. \ot 0' -- -:, ,-......_ ,&Iø::, iIi':' -",:-" Z ::"'M"';:"':'::::: : < 'Q: ", . < ",',w::::' :: :::;;A.,:":' :: ,:.:,:: MME. MAJESKA Consultant Decorator till 8, Sat. 6 air-cooled · air-cooled! Luggage for School and College 1-ffl , I:-- I l' M , ::: l II ,r: (iJ , II :rl . ' J- , I <t: lY cAlso deþof fir genuine VUITTON mtnksand Ser1Jlæ 16 EAST 52ND STREET,NEWYORK Arthur Gilmore INC. become a skilled secretary Day or evening classes. Low fee, in instalments. Place- ment service. See cHalog RB 1 ballard school y w c a lexlngton at 53d. wick. 2-4500